Marker Clustering - Fusion Table Layer - Google Maps v3

Question

Is there a way to get marker clustering (ie makerclusterer) to work with a Fusion Table layer? It seems that you have to assign markers to markerclusterer yet when using a fusion table layer, Google is handling the markers/infowindows? Still trying to figure this fusion table thing out.

Basically looking for a way to cluster large amounts of markers being provided via a Fusion Table

Answer 1

Fusion Table Layers render an additional png image for each tile that gets overlaid on top of the map tile, containing the data points for that tile, this is the server side rendering part. So it's multiple data points per tile that contains data points.

Generating your own markers from data, which is necessary for MarkerClusterer, doesn't overlay an image per tile, it creates an individual Marker on the map for each data point and overlays a sprite image on to that.

Based on this, it is not possible to use MarkerClusterer and a FusionTablesLayer.